Sarah Kurchak on how autistic headcanons fill the gaps in official autistic representation. (I have a small problem with this article, which is that Kurchak inadvertently gives the impression that there’s less official representation than there is – many of the forms of representation she describes can also be found in books and stories I’ve reviewed! – but many of those books and stories aren’t very well known, especially among non-SFF-geeks, so, eh. Anyway, that’s a minor point, and the main points of the article are very good.)

Shira Rubin on autism therapy robots(There is more pathologizing language in this article than I would like, especially at first, but it also has some interesting information, especially where it lists potential problems with the robots.)

For Black History Month, Finn Gardiner tells the story of “Blind Tom” Wiggins, who may have been an autistic savant